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Go back to my previous post and please check between which two things I made the analogy and then you may realise your reply missed the mark. The comp...
June 08, 2019 at 14:12
Yes, I read that and I recall we already went over the fact she wasn't legally incapacitated in which case the court cannot order any treatment. At le...
June 07, 2019 at 19:14
This is a very pessimistic characterisation. My Skoda Octavia is not woefully inadequate simply because the ultimate car still has to be invented. It'...
June 07, 2019 at 19:11
I thought you were a lawyer; forced hospitalisation is not forced treatment. In any case, het condition was not acute so the necessary requirement for...
June 07, 2019 at 15:01
As it is, the Dutch health care system is one of the best in the world and absolutely free for children up to 18 years old.
June 07, 2019 at 14:55
Only if you can show that she was incapable of making rational decisions and therefore legally incapacitated, in which case the decision would fall to...
June 07, 2019 at 14:38
The factor in deciding whether euthanisia is appropriate isn't whether it's terminal but the level of suffering and whether that situation can improve...
June 07, 2019 at 07:29
Thanks for trying to reason with the person who hasn't been raped but already knows he can live with it the next day as long as he's physically alrigh...
June 07, 2019 at 06:20
It's probably been pointed out already but she committed suicide and this wasn't euthanisia. She starved herself and the Dutch code of ethics for doct...
June 07, 2019 at 06:11
She's not taken seriously because objectivism is crap. When she's right, she's unoriginal and when she's wrong, it's clear she isn't aware of philosop...
June 07, 2019 at 05:52
But I am a jerk to people who think Rand has anything useful to say. That's not for their benefit but for this site as to minimise their presence by m...
June 06, 2019 at 19:09
What nonsense is this? Apart from the multitude of fallacies in her work, like deriving ethics from a logical tautology (I mean, wtf?!). She further g...
June 06, 2019 at 18:51
I kind of meant that in the ethical sense. :wink:
June 04, 2019 at 16:46
What did they do to earn 82 million?
June 01, 2019 at 17:46
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It seems to me you complain about what people take issue with in the Trump thread and his child separation and the intensity of their disapproval in t...
May 26, 2019 at 07:01
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The US had to make a decision between throwing everything and the kitchen sink at him so that there's a higher probability something will stick when h...
May 25, 2019 at 06:46
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Goodbye May, hello BoJo, Britain is screwed. Welcome to the EU, Wales and Scotland?
May 24, 2019 at 09:38
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There can be no extradition in the event of a possibility of a death penalty. Presumably the extradition request will have assurances that the death p...
May 24, 2019 at 09:33
I think that's a false analogy. That's fine for a website, excluding people who don't meet certain criteria or who breach the rules. I'm not convinced...
May 20, 2019 at 18:23
Funny how we have different interpretations of this thread. My take away is there is no consensus on what qualifies as speech. If "actions speak loude...
May 20, 2019 at 13:24
This is one of the better threads in quite some time in my view. Even if it might be frustrating to see intelligent people disagreeing on some fundame...
May 20, 2019 at 06:37
Social Democrats are just badly informed Marxists. :razz:
May 19, 2019 at 11:32
I'm replying sideways to csalisbury, streetlightX and Noble Dust I guess. We can commentate without participating and still know what we're talking ab...
May 18, 2019 at 10:37
Yeah, I suppose because it's done for the greater good it's all fine and dandy and totally lessens the vindictiveness of it all. :chin: And some suppo...
May 16, 2019 at 05:54
Well admittedly, Trump did manage to raise taxes through tariffs without anyone complaining about it. No mean feat in the US. I think he's secretly a ...
May 15, 2019 at 15:29
Might be in the automatic filter; it sometimes picks up things it shouldn't. When they (moderators) find time they'll check it. Alternatively, there w...
May 15, 2019 at 11:06
That was me, glad you liked the analogy. :lol:
May 15, 2019 at 06:32
This is just vindictive. No abortion even in case of invest and rape.
May 15, 2019 at 05:23
The insults are unnecessary and you certainly can't expect a European to be as informed or even interested in the details of certain aspects of US pol...
May 15, 2019 at 05:01
Politics isn't about facts most of the time. Once I've got you classified as a Conservative I obviously don't have to listen to you because of course ...
May 14, 2019 at 09:36
I stand corrected. I was going on reporting in the Guardian and that linked the tweet in my post which had one possible meaningful explanation. The tw...
May 14, 2019 at 06:39
not entirely, because it means American consumers wouldn't notice the effect of the tariffs as prices would remain more or less the same. So while tec...
May 14, 2019 at 06:23
There's one possibility you're overlooking though and that's when the Chinese government increased subsidies to compensate for the tariffs. I don't kn...
May 14, 2019 at 04:58
Yes, an over reliance on probability to predict the future. I'll buy you a beer when Trump loses.
May 13, 2019 at 20:16
dude, polls had Clinton winning with a 90% likelihood. Excuse me for not taking them too seriously.
May 13, 2019 at 04:18
You're straw manning up the ying yang. Nobody here made issue with the number of deported but the treatment of immigrants. Obama deported illegal immi...
May 12, 2019 at 08:06
Wishful thinking I'm afraid. Biden is just ms. Clinton but with a dick. That is to say, mainstream Democrats don't appeal as much as you think. Trump'...
May 11, 2019 at 06:22
Not even relevant for pointing out your argument wasn't representative of how things work in practice.
May 10, 2019 at 17:55
great argument.
May 10, 2019 at 15:06
1. I'm a guy. 2. There are sanctions against me calling my wife's friends "bitch". 3. My wife and her friend say "bitch" without sanctions. C. Therefo...
May 10, 2019 at 14:16
This process of a group of people co-opting a word originally intended as derogatory of that group as a badge of honour is a very common process. That...
May 10, 2019 at 10:32
Lock him up! Lock him up! EDIT: Whatever. We all know the economy is humming along nicely and Trump will get re-elected. Meanwhile, the Democrats stil...
May 10, 2019 at 09:34
Were those national passports or documents guaranteeing safe passage? Precursors to national passports have existed even in Eqypt before the Roman emp...
May 09, 2019 at 12:24
It's interesting to put this in a historic context. We've been issuing passports since about 1912 (taking the Brits) and the rest of Europe a bit late...
May 09, 2019 at 06:51
I haven't read or heard what Paglia has to say about rape so I'm just going by what people have written here. It appears as if Paglia has chosen bad w...
May 06, 2019 at 20:08
Why must it be personal and not what he has done, oh, say, to immigrant families by separating kids from parents? How many lies does a person have to ...
May 03, 2019 at 06:00
But can you get "the facts straight" when there's no clear understanding of what collussion is and how the facts described by Mueller would fit? It ju...
May 01, 2019 at 14:41
Painkillers? I don't know where you live but at least in the Netherlands you can get support in weening off of drugs. It would make sense to get that ...
May 01, 2019 at 07:08
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to pursue this line of reasoning. As you say, the report has not looked into collusion because it is not a crimin...
May 01, 2019 at 06:49
Which immediately underlines their wonderful, irrational cognitive dissonance "my culture/race is superior but I'm still afraid to be subjugated by fo...
May 01, 2019 at 06:33